RICHARD TAYLOR is a senior analyst at QinetiQ Ltd in the UK, where he specializes in open systems architectures for command and control systems. He has been developing in Python since about 1994, and has used Python to build many large-scale commercial and research applications. When not working, Richard indulges his keen interest in genealogy and open source software, and is a regular contributor to the GRAMPS (Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System) project.